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Today I had a great run into work and was here 10 minutes early. I was a bit worried because of yesterdays traffic – it took me 40 minutes to get here. I think Warrick’s trip from Opaheke Road wasn’t much shorter. Julian and I were just talking about all the people affected by that […]

As I write this, I’m just about to take a funeral of a lady from outside our church who was clearly loved by all her family and so although this event for them had been expected for some time, it nevertheless comes with a sense of loss and grief. So what do you say into […]

Good Morning Welcome to another week. There is a lot happening here First of all I need to talk about the Combined Service on July 3rd. It will be at 10am and is followed by a catered lunch. I will be sending out invitations this week – emailing where I can. This is to celebrate […]

At the end of this month Presbytery will be holding one of its four seasonal meetings of all the Ministers under it’s purview (about 60 of us) plus an elder from every one of its parishes. That ends up being a large meeting, but since the Northland Presbytery, of which we are a part, stretches […]

We are approaching the one-year anniversary of having shared the vision for us as church here in First Church. We’ll be celebrating that in early July, almost certainly by having another catered dinner for us all as a fellowship, although that has yet to be confirmed. We’ll also use this wonderful time together to look […]

I wonder if you’ve ever thought about the leadership of this fellowship. I know that they have about you, and very often. In fact, that forms a significant part of who they are in answering God’s calling on their lives since what they do is to help us all fulfil our own calls to be […]

First of all we want to extend our love and condolences to the Tejada family who lost Reggie last Thursday. Please can you pray for Helen and the three children and their extended in family. The funeral was here yesterday. It seems a bit hard to move on in an email from the loss of […]

The last time I met with my supervisor (all Ministers are required to meet with one regularly) we got talking about the sorts of things all Christians ought to think about from time to time. In particular whether I had taken the study leave I have meant to be taking over the last few years. […]

People often mention, and I observe as well, that attendance on any given Sunday at a service of worship, can vary quite substantially. Just recently, a couple of Ministers have mentioned that same thing to me from their own patch, and certainly it is pretty obvious here too at First Church. I don’t understand it […]

Week One of Term Two the the school year. It is an unseasonably hot May and I hope you are making the most of the great weather. Were you at church on Sunday when Warrick preached on 1 Samuel 17 – his theme being about the other battles before the main battle, and what David […]